Bottle Gourd Rice. Bottle gourd rice /Suraikkai sadham is an excellent rice recipe. This healthy recipe is very easy to make, bottle gourd consist of high water content and it. Bottle gourd is known as Lauki and Calabash.

Bottle gourd curry recipe - One of the easiest bottle gourd recipes from Indian cuisine. This bottle gourd recipe is easy and quick to prepare, most convenient even for working folks. This bottle gourd recipe is prepared with groundnut and tomato gravy. sorakaya curry is one of the most delicious curry among all bottle gourd recipes for chapati. it perfectly goes with rice or chapathi. You can have Bottle Gourd Rice using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Bottle Gourd Rice

1. You need 1/2 Bottle of Gourd chopped.
2. You need 1 1/2 cup of sona masoori rice.
3. It's 2 3/4 cup of water.
4. You need 2 tbsp of oil.
5. Prepare 1 tbsp of ghee.
6. It's of Whole spices (Cinnamon, cloves, stone flower, 1 tsp fennel seeds).
7. You need 1 1/2 of onion thinly sliced.
8. You need 1 of red chilli.
9. It's 1 tbsp of Ginger garlic paste.
10. You need 5-6 of stem coriander leaves.
11. You need 3-4 of stem mint leaves.
12. You need 1 1/2 of medium size tomato chopped.
13. You need 3/4 tsp of red chilli powder.
14. Prepare of Salt as required.
15. Prepare drops of Few lemon.

Take Bottle Gourd and dice into cubes as shown below in picture. Heat the oil into pressure cooker, add cumin seeds and green chillies. Sorakkai kootu / Bottle gourd kootu for rice is an easy to make, yummy South Indian style kootu recipe with coconut, moong dal. We call it as sorakkai poricha kuzhambu too.

Bottle Gourd Rice instructions

1. Heat a pressure cooker with oil and ghee and temper with whole spices..
2. Add onion and red chilli. sauté until it becomes very soft..
3. Add ginger garlic paste and sauté until raw smell goes..
4. Add coriander leaves and mint leaves. Sauté for few mins. Add tomato and sauté until it becomes soft. Add red chilli powder and salt..
5. Add bottle gourd and sauté for few mins. Add water and mix it well. Add rice and finally add few lemon drops. Close the lid and pressure cook for 2 whistles..
6. Serve with any raita..

Bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria, is a genus of tropical and subtropical vines in the Cucurbitaceae family. It is also called Calabash Gourd, Trumpet Gourd and Long Squash. The bottle gourd is easy to prepare. The skin is thin and can easily be peeled with a vegetable peeler or knife. Serve warm on a bed of basmati rice or with your favourite naan bread.